「幸福な/幸せな/ハッピーな」の一考察 - 被修飾語のうちモノ名詞を中心に-

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the adjective ‘Happy’ which has three word types in Japanese. For the purpose to classified nouns that co-occur with three word types ‘Happy’, First, pick up the nouns by using the “Database for Adjectives Based on Web Data” of The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Next, these nouns are classified according to the nature of the nouns in the “Classification Lexicon” of the National Institute of Japanese Language, and hypothesis are made. This thesis considers that Japanese origin word is the prototype in the three word types. In other words, Japanese origin ‘Happy’ have the central meanings out of the three, Chinese ‘Happy’ and English loanword ‘Happy’. This concept is beneficial to prove the hypothesis of this thesis. The results, it can be said that Chinese ‘Happy’ almost co-occur with ‘material noun’, and English loanword ‘Happy’ almost co-occur with ‘feel nouns’. In addition, this thesis proved ‘material nouns’ have features “permanent” and ‘feel nouns’ have features “temporary” through examples.